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For the last 30+ hours I have been reading, replying to and posting comments here and here in the (livejournal business ) community. I need to stop. I need to make myself stop. After 70+ pages it is all pretty much the same.

For those of you in LJ land who didn’t read my last post, and those of you who are reading this in a blog from the outside world, what is going down is Livejournal is now actively putting ads in LJ calling them “sponsored communities. You are probably saying, so? There are ads everywhere. Well, you are right. Read on…

I have been a part of Livejournal for six years and three months, which is a lot of time and energy vested in something. I have several accounts with LJ, one an early adopter, a couple more through the invite system. I spend 80% of my computer time on LJ, Whoa! You say – computer time is not equal to internet time, you are correct, however I am also correct in saying that 80% of my computer time is on LJ, 90% of my online time is on LJ. Livejournal for me is my place to be on the internet. I have friends, family, and community there. Anything I need is there. My news, my information, and the comics I like to read. I can even find pr0n to masturbate to there if I want. All of this is ad free. Livejournal doesn’t give me popups, popovers, banners, or annoying beat the beaver and win prize bullshit. I admit, there are a very few syndicated feeds on my LJ that do serve me a banner. This didn’t come from LJ, it came from the feed it’s self, it stays in the feed, and it is something that LJ can not control, if I choose, I can remove the banner or the feed at anytime, I choose to live with it.

Livejournal has promised from day one to never serve us ads. The founder said that he was adamantly against ads in any way shape or form and he will keep it this way. He then sold his company to Six Apart. We as a community were in an uproar, we said that this is bad, they are going to kill LJ or even worse, serve us ads! Why Brad why?! SixApart then promised to us that they will keep with the standards and spirit of LJ and told us that they will give us no ads ever! So the angry mob calmed down and said OK, we trust you.

Livejournal saves me a lot of time, instead of going to 10+ websites a day to get my daily fix of information and dealing with their annoyances (see ads) I get it all in one place. Livejournal is one of the last islands out there where I am not bombarded with the increasingly annoying and hard to get rid of ads.

I do not want any kind of advertisements in LJ; not only for the above reasons, but it will also kill the spirit of community in Livejournal. When you ask for advice in a community, you trust the members to give you honest unbiased information. Now with these people creating user accounts and communities that LOOK like user accounts and communities, you will not be able to trust the people posting, are they being honest about a product? Are they a corporate monkey selling their wares to you? If you go to ( and start to read the comments, you will see the poorly disguised corporate worker bees trying to pose as lj users saying how much they love the movie. Their journals are newly created and/or never to very rarely posted in. It doesn’t take much for the average person to see through the deception. How do we know that they don’t go to other users and communities spreading their advertising?

This is going to kill something I love dearly: live journal, the spirit of Live journal and the community of live journal.

I am optimistically hopeful that the people at Six Apart will reconsider and renig on the contracts with the companies that they have lined up. I am hopeful that they will listen to the 3000+ comments telling that they DO NOT WANT. My paid account expires 11/17. I am trying to decide what I should do. Should I go to a free account? Should I abandon LJ all together? Yes I have my blog at Who Gives A Crap, but if I continue to blog there and shut of my live+press plug-in and abandon LJ, I will be abandoning a place that has been near and dear to me for six years.

If you are reading this and you are on LJ, then please, please, please go to one of the above links and tell them you do not want ads on LJ. I have posted this publicly and I have also cross posted this to the blogs at Carrot Juice and Blog Your News. I want people to google, yahoo, or otherwise search this and read this that are from Six Apart, Live Journal, or any other corporation who are considering doing business with them, I do not want ads in LJ. I will not buy your products. I will tell my friends, family, and co workers not to buy your products. I am a single male making enough money to live comfortably. I make buying decisions, and I will not buy any product that is advertised or sponsored on Livejournal.

When I went to get the coke for my rum and cokes I also picked up some Amy’s vegan enchaladas and some Tofutti Strawberry cheesecake “ice cream” and Tofutti Chocolate Supreme “ice cream”.  I couldn’t decide between either one so I both.  When it came time to eat desert I decided to also put both in the same bowl.

Let me tell you that the combination of these two were fucking orgasmic.  Highly recomended.
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Recap:

So I met her Jan third.  By feb I had fallen madly and deeply.  She thought she was in love, and decided it was only emotions, not sexually attraced to me and other reasons, but she still liked me and stuff.

So in March I spend a week in DC and get to know her even better and I get to see the capital and fall in love with DC.  We do EVERYTHING except penetration and it was fanfuckingtastic.

I return home my head spinning after I fell in love with the city and I am even considering moving there one day.  I love the history and the veg friendliness of it and the public transportation, and ya.

Anyway…  About a month ago I got an email from her stating that our current incarnation of friends with benifits or whatever is confusing ME because I am wanting more out of the relatoinship than she is wiling to give or whatever, and this is after several conversations that made sure of the clearity of the relationship.  Ya sure I love her and want her and stuff, but I know she doesn’t wnat anything or whatever.  So, bah.   Fucking whatever.  So because she thinks it is all confusing for me and she seems to think that I think we are more than we actually are then she is going to make it less than what I know it is and we are going to be just friends, no benifits, no yummy pictures or videos, and all that other good yummy stuff.

Fast forward to about a week ago.  She tells me she is seeing this guy and has been seeing him for a few weeks and they are exclusive but no names or whatever.  So I am feeling like I got fucked, and I instantly realise why she decides to kill the benifits portion of our relationship.  It is because she is now seeing this guy and has nothing to do with me.

Lately she has been refering to him as her bf.

That hurts me even more.  I know it is mostly my fault.  I know that she has made the status of things very clear to me.

I fell in love with her.  I fell deep, I fell hard.  I thought she was the one.  We have so much in common.  She is one of the special ones.  I want to say she is the one that got away, but I never even had her to begin with.  She wasn’t sexually attracted to me.  I know that is an easy thing to be, but then again she said that to me about the guy she is dating now.  I guess that part cuts in deep too.

I feel so empty, so sad, so depressed, so dead.

Bah.

This morning I was woken up at around 6:30 by my battery back up. The power was out. I called and put in an outage report, and the power was back on at 7:20, abotu 5 minutes after my backup had died. It is nice to be on the internet on my laptop with the power out (I have my modem and router on the backup as well). I just wish it had held out for anothr 5 mintues.

My dad called me today. He has had a computer for at least five years, and I still have to walk him through downloading and installing a program and doing Windows Updates.

DC was a blast. I had a lot of fun there and time went by way too quickly.

DC is very veg*n friendly with several veg*n restaraunts in the area. There are also several health food stores there, and a lot of the restaraunts that served meat as well had knoledgeable staff that knew what was in everything and helped with making sure the items were vegan friendly.

Pangea is also located just outside the city limits and right off the subway line. It is a small storefront with the warehouse in back. So if you are in the DC area, you can go there and save the shipping costs. I ended up spending $120 there. Also if there is something that they do not have up front do not be afraid to ask the helpful staff, they will gladly go back and get whatever you need (really nice that the warehouse is right there).

If you go to the Smithsonians, it is best to eat at the Native Americian one, they have a better selection of food than the other ones, and it was really good and decently priced (for touristy type of places).
You can read more about my adventures in DC and see pictures in my blog at http://whogivesacrap.net. You do need to register though, but there is no cost or commitment.

So next week I am going to go to spend a week in DC.  I am going to be sightseeing and I am going out to see Mary as well.  (See my previous post)

I am really excited, it should be fun!  Like I said before she is vegan, so i am sure I am going to go to all the good vegan spots.

This will be the first time  I have been in the north east, so I am excited to see some “history” and I will be seeing the Smithsonian and the Air and space museum amongst others, it should be really cool.  I will post a link to pictures when I return, wish me well!

I am extremely happy right now. Happier than I have been in a long time. I think I have found the perfect woman. I met her Jan 3rd on VegWeb in their personals. We have talked on the internet and/or on the phone practically every day. I am going to go to DC next month to meet her face to face and spend some time visiting the nations capital and seeing a lot of the free museums out there. It should be a great trip.

Anyway, this is a really recent entry from my blog (you must register to read entries you will not be denied, it is to hide it from work)

Mary is Dreamy!

I talked to Mary most of the day today on the phone and in yahoo. It was fantastic. I haven’t felt this way about anyone in a very long time. I sent her a package which she recieved yesterday. She seemed to like it. There was a few things that I didn’t read the label correctly and I sent, I am disapointed in that.

I really enjoy her voice and her laugh and her face. I am going to embaress her by posting a couple of her pictures…

Isn’t she just dreamy?

31 days until I get to see her! 31 days!

Jared

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